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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

That’s the message a leading Hasidic rabbi gave to his thousands of followers in response to the city Education Department’s investigation into its schools failing to teach secular subjects as required by law.

“These are bad times for us Jews,” said Satmar leader Aaron Teitelbaum during a May 4 speech. “We need to pray to God that (city officials) should not interfere with the upbringing of our children.”

“Worthless ... snitches” in the community are urging the Education Department to take action “which the government doesn’t even want,” the rabbi said at a large synagogue in upstate Kiryas Joel.

“This speech is concerning in many ways,” said Naftuli Moster, who founded Young Advocates for Fair Education, a group advocating for yeshivas to meet secular standards required by state law.

“Most concerning is the apparent collusion between community leaders and the (department) which might explain why the city investigation stalled early on,” he added.

The Teitelbaum address was transcribed and distributed to followers living in different areas.

The Hasidic leader also says the city has long ignored the state law regarding secular education.

“To put it bluntly, they simply turned a blind eye to what was going on by the Jewish children,” Teitelbaum said. “They didn’t want to look.”

City authorities say the review is active.

“We take this matter very seriously,” said Education Department spokeswoman Toya Holness.

11 comments:

Jewish Education - Secular Education ...The Charedi-Chassidic institutions have no education(.)They are producing Amei-HaAratzimA person may think that in lieu of not teaching basic english &arithmetic you are producing great Lomdim & Poskim as an ersatz.Nothing is taught. Time is wasted.No Hebrew - No English -You are left with a mere Gypsy style yiddish with a meager 200 wordvocabulary laced with a heavy Transylvanian-Dracula accent talkinglike the rappers in the street foaming at their mouth.

Back in Europe the gypsies in Hungary and Romania did not send their children to school,therefore why would it surprise us that these Satmar gypsy savages follow in the footsteps of their forefathers :)

End of OF game is satmar today gives the best education, we can say what ever we want,? a satmar chusid gets today the top top education in satmara yeshiva, simple and easy, a satmar boy has to no this,2, words ( ((tziyonim,kufrim)) not only that,? But yull be molested and kissed and licked all over your mouth by your own (menahal) principal, as a young boy, and satmar will right away be claiming that the principal did nothing wrong to you ,because your a special boy with disabilities, and you came from a broken house where your parents never ever showed you love, and the principal did it to you to show you love,? he did not ment to molest you,? He kissed and licked you over and over and over, just to show you love,? Wow what a sweet education

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